Expansion

Green shoots in Healthcare and Transport & Storage, which emerged in 3Q and 4Q 2020, continue to gain momentum in 1Q 2021 and lead the broad-based recovery for SMEs across industries. SME cashflows largely returned to pre-Circuit Breaker levels in 1Q 2021, though challenges...

International marketplace builder Arcadier, has officially launched both a Developer Platform and a Plug-In Marketplace for its community of developers and users respectively. The Plug-In marketplace provides installable applications and integrations that users can add to their Arcadier-powered marketplace. Meanwhile, the developer platform, provides a suite of developer tools and APIs which enable developers to execute customization projects...

Enterprise Singapore (ESG) has set aside over S$55 million to accelerate the growth of promising local agriculture and aquaculture companies by developing their innovation capabilities to grow more with less. This builds on ESG’s ongoing efforts to develop a vibrant agri-food tech ecosystem that...

Across the Asia Pacific, the unprecedented mass migration of organizations' IT infrastructure to cloud and digital systems in the past year has compressed years of planned digital transformation into a matter of months – or even weeks.While this agility is impressive, the addition of countless new devices,...

Local business sentiment has weakened with only 25% of businesses confident that the economy will improve in the next 12 months, compared to 41% a year before. The top challenge faced by businesses is an increase in business cost (58%) with manpower cost cited...

The COVID-19 pandemic has weighed heavily on talent strategies with muted salary increases across Southeast Asia, according to a study by Aon plc . The second edition of Aon's 2021 Salary Increase and Turnover Study was conducted from June 2020 to June 2021, surveying the salary movements and turnover rates of...

Following two years of high but stable loss activity, 2023 has seen a worrying resurgence in ransomware and extortion claims as the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, Allianz Commercial warns in a new report.Hackers are increasingly targeting IT and physical supply chains, launching mass cyber-attacks, and...

Google Cloud and Axiata Enterprise have announced a strategic partnership to serve the evolving needs of millions of companies across rapidly digitalising economies in Asia. The partnership will be rolled out in two distinct phases. The first will see Axiata’s Digital Telcos offering Google...

In an interview with SME Horizon, Paul Hadjy, Co-Founder, Horangi Cyber Security explains how his company helps small and medium enterprises in the Asia Pacific region use technology to mitigate risks Can you tell us about Horangi? Me and my co-founder...

Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK) have substantially concluded negotiations on the UK-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement (UKSDEA), according to MTI. The UKSDEA will be Singapore’s third DEA, following the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement with Chile and New Zealand, and the Singapore-Australia DEA. The agreement...